What Is Dark Matter? Neil deGrasse Tyson Tries To Explain

[@photopawn37]

I'm all in for calling it "Fred"

[@WaywardEnding]

photopawn37 me too. it's cool. at least it's not that boring as calling the great red spot on jupiter "The Great Red Spot". And you would think that they'd be more creative...

[@marcushenness6437]

WaywardEnding Red Rum?

[@photopawn37]

Lets call it George.

[@CarlosOsuna1970]

Dark Fred.

[@NikhilMathew122333]

Let's call it TRUMP

[@joedotphp]

"There's gotta be some ass. Where is it? We can't find it." Laughed so hard.

[@randomguy4359]

JoeDotPHP are you sure he said ass? i couldn't hear it xD

[@randomguy4359]

JoeDotPHP i watched the video again and i'm pretty sure he says Mass xD

[@joedotphp]

Arsany Osama He does. Just sounds like ass haha.

[@thesnazz1790]

JoeDotPHP The Closed Captioning says it's ass :)

[@CarlosOsuna1970]

So Ass and Gravity go together... never thought about that one...

[@booJay]

According to Interstellar, it's _loooooove...._

[@Belt4in1]

boo Jay murrrrrrrrrph

[@harrybahls1871]

Belt4in1 MURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPH

[@randomguy4359]

boo Jay do not go gentle into that good night.

[@fedeserra1591]

Rage against the dying of the light

[@Neo-pi7xd]

+boo Jay Love is the key my friend. Divine Love , not human romantic love, which shouldn't even be called love, more like a mutual dependency with an overflowing of negative and disruptive energies. It's blind hope. Comes initially from the emotion of insecurity and fear.

[@nichirh123]

I just love this man, he explains complicated concepts in a way that anyone can understand them! Thanks for being in this universe NdGT

[@leopold7390]

In a nutshell: We don't know what it is but it must be there bcs all the visible things in the universe don't add enough mass up for the gravity we're seeing

[@jerilloyd9826]

Out of the many brief explanations I've found of dark matter- this explained it to me the best!

[@SoccerBoyAP]

I actually prefer to think of it more like "missing matter" then dark gravity or dark matter.

[@shantanu556]

but its not missing, its there, it has to be there, its just that we cant see/measure it. just like we cant see dark.

[@neihomai8]

nah, i'm calling it Fred from now on.

[@ShannonLooper]

"Extra gravity" would be totally honest. I got $10 that says we got our "mass causes gravity" concept wrong. If the observation doesn't fit the model, the first thing to suspect is the model.

[@siddharthrana9216]

What's so special about professor Tyson is that he can take even a simple topic and complexify it and yet explain it in a very easy to understand manner so that ANYONE can have a grasp over it. Not everybody has that ability. He does. Our Personal Astrophysicist - Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

[@lewisner]

I would love to find out what it was and casually mention to him "oh I know that".

[@iWpanz]

It is the mechanics behind the mulitversal computer that is running this simulation which is the universe we are in

[@vgamerul4617]

yes/no/maybe

[@RecentlyAdults]

Every Fred I know is mysterious, so it's quite fitting.

[@WaywardEnding]

Recently Adults well, it's really not fitting, coz fred should not only be mysterious but unknown also.

[@RecentlyAdults]

Fred is nothing if not mysterious.

[@χελώνα-ο3ε]

right in the pussy

[@peterfred445]

Well since my last name is Fred, it is suppose it is fitting that l also have a solution to the dark matter problem. I am hoping soon to make a video revealing that solution.

[@Spiralsmile]

It's so curious to me that someone with the personality of neil degrasse tyson also had the personality of an astrophysicist

[@pranav576]

Just a random thought...what if Dark Matter is really luminiferous ether?

[@abcabcdoes9533]

Awesome explaination

[@DUMBCAT86]

skip to 0:27 for Tyson's answer

[@richardhammond9757]

😂😂

[@sexybeast7728]

I had a thought that dark matter is matter, but just in higher dimension so we can't see it. Gravity still mathematically works if we include more dimensions so it affects that matter as well. Going all the way up to 11 dimensions could explain why there is so much more dark matter than regular matter, that we see. Imagine 11 transparent sheets of papers and on every one of them stars and galaxies are drawn. If you put them all together, forming one sheet of paper, you get how universe actually looks like, but we are prisoners of 3 dimensions so what we actually see are only 3 sheets of papers,.. our regular matter. Other 8 dimensions are unkown to us and only connection with them are black holes and gravity. That's how i imagine it

[@noesaulnier]

I was just thinking about that too, and did you pick 11 just for an example or you have something about that too?

[@peleuno]

Fred

[@Breondan]

Please explain the gravity part....how do you know its there is it pulling things towards it

[@robertoalejandroorozco3503]

Let's find Fred!

[@GRiMHOLDx]

Hes under your bed with a glove made of utensils we use to cut meat and butter bread.

[@jon8192]

GRiMHOLD Some have said, it was actually wonder bread, supplemented by the government to make us bump our heads with another sense - where the sun is bent.

[@angelitab62]

I love this guys explanation and his humor

[@boldsign]

Maybe it's gravity from another dimension.

[@WaywardEnding]

boldsign MHmm. Lets go dimensions. Multiple. And in every one of them, there are scientists asking "where the fuck this extra gravity came from ?!" :D.

[@loosekarrott]

boldsign that's what i thought, it could be swapping over from hyperspace, couldn't it?

[@randomguy4359]

boldsign interstellar aproves! xD

[@newdefsys]

Yes ! With the discovery of the Higgs-Boson it might be the case of gravity being elementary particle that exists in higher dimensions. We cannot perceive those dimensions, but they are there and effect our universe.

[@richardhammond9757]

Means If you Discover anything in univese we relate those things with F*cking Unsolve Dimension😂😂 Edit: But thats your thoughts and I respect them🙏

[@jaycho6747]

This man does not age.

[@mpeters99]

This is why it’s funny to me when some people call people who believe in God stupid (or the other way around). When you have such great unknowns out there such as this, no one can truly claim to know whether God exists or not. All anyone can do is to believe in God or to not, or to choose to not make a belief claim. I feel like theists and atheists need to stop trying so hard to disprove each other and begin to accept that we will likely never have every piece of the puzzle and try to learn from each other’s perspectives rather than try to tear each other’s beliefs down.

[@Mrjbauer5]

Does gravity travel at the speed of light? You don't feel the gravitational force of an object until you can see it? Or would you feel the gravity of the sun before it's light reached you?

[@vnx2738]

You would feel the gravity and light at the same time as it's speed is similar.

[@noesaulnier]

Basically the speed of light is the speed limit of the universe (to make it simple, don't talk about quantum we make it simple) so just under ≈ 300 000 km/s and yes if the sun vanish we will know that 8min and 20 sec after , so black out freezing and no more rotation

[@Campiclatch]

Dark Matter: "We should call it Fred"

[@whatifgaming1661]

very interesting. Did not know that

[@jwarmstrong]

Gravity has different values depending on spacetime distance - weak close in & stronger light years away

[@letolethe3344]

How do we know it exists if we don't know what it is?

[@michaelmclaren1333]

Just a question: is "dark matter" what we are describing as the "black nothing" that's between every star, planet, asteroid, galaxy etc? Ndt sounded like he was describing "dark energy" and not "dark matter" so is the black nothing dark matter?

[@xxxxsilentscreamxxxx]

his voice and his hands

[@Alexander-mg4pr]

00:57 LOL wasn't expecting that

[@sofaoverlord7501]

It would be interesting if our scientific knowledge is limited by the language we use, perhaps prompting further development to ensure a radical change of our natural methodology to understanding new material in the future.

[@alexwin257]

i keep rewatching 1:34 lol "Fred"

[@Wowyana]

There's gotta be some mass somewhere! Get it?! Some mass! Lmao!

[@christopherma8189]

+RosaRosaOohLaLa I expected an intelligent comments section. How does it feel to be a disappointment once again?

[@christopherma8189]

I honestly no idea what that means. Is that a put down towards homosexuals or was it just you showing unreasonable pride towards your own foolishness?

[@Wowyana]

+Christopher Ma I'll let you pick.

[@phuturephunk]

+Christopher Ma Mas means more in Spanish. Some mass = some more. It was a pun.

[@mightydeathlash2867]

🤣😂🤣😂 Some @$$

[@granadosvm]

0:26 Not the first time he has been asked the question

[@martinphipps2]

He's being modest. He could say that dark matter consists of neutralinos which would be stable, massive particles more massive than the Higgs Boson. There's a theory in physics called super symmetry that predicts massive particles larger than the Higgs Boson and the neutralino, if I am not mistaken, would be the only stable particle with other particles decaying into the neutralino. The problem with neutralinos is that they would have no charge so they would not interact massively so-called "Hadronic" (regular) matter. That doesn't mean they don't interact with each other: perhaps neutralinos experience a repulsive force in addition to the force of gravity and this is responsible for the "dark energy" that is causing the universe to expand. Who knows? It may be only a matter of time before scientists can prove that neutralinos exist (the same way they found the Higgs Boson, namely using a particle accelerator to create massive particles) but as soon as you created a neutralino it would seem to disappear completely and there would be no way to learn about its physics. So frustrating!

[@Lisztman88]

The point is there isn't any evidence for any of the ideas or explanations of what it might be, right?

[@martinphipps2]

Turd Ferguson There's the Higgs Boson. The idea is that there are particles lighter than the Higgs Boson and particles heavier than the Higgs Boson so the fact that the Higgs Boson exists is evidence supporting that theory. But, sure, other than that it is just a theory. It's a bit better than "no idea" though. :)

[@TheJerbol]

Martin Phipps I don't follow your logic. Just because there are lighter and heavier particles predicted, why does the existence of the Higgs give any indication that they exist? Also, it isn't purely charge that dictates whether a particle interacts with other particles, there are plenty of chargeless particles that we can readily observe.

[@Skarnofguthix]

I've always wondered why most don't bring up the question that if there is an apparent higher being, then how did that higher being get to that stature? And if that higher being gained it from another higher being, how did that higher being come with those abilities to create a new high being? We will literally never have the answer to what started essentially everything. It'll always fall back to "If that started this, what started that?".

[@GelidGanef]

I've always thought that the only really compelling argument for God, was a transhumanist one, that if simulating a universe is possible, we are probably already in a simulation (and then "god" would be whatever is simulating us). I've never actually heard that one from any religious people though obviously, because it doesn't depict god as the highest or even a higher power, it just imagines god as a being not terribly dissimilar from us in a universe not terribly dissimilar from ours. I agree with you that the idea of a higher power is fundamentally flawed and only results in chicken/egg problems.

[@zippytwosauce6272]

nothing started anything, everything just exists. Leave "god" out of this discussion.

[@shantanu556]

​@@zippytwosauce6272 hmm ,maybe, but the thing is , no body knows. but then again , science is atleast try to find the answers, unlike some other groups , that are too lazy/dumb to even try.

[@skaterdude7277]

Neil Tyson has got to be the coolest guy.

[@jlw184]

According to Rick and Morty, the formula for concentrated dark matter is two parts plutonic quarks (pink), one part cesium (green) and bottled water.

[@VorsaLjanta]

Sorry Freds of Earth, you have no meaning.

[@georgiaoreilly6220]

We should call it 'Wally'

[@georticonyt4925]

So if it's "missing mass". If you took all the mass out of one area of space and then weighed it, would it still weigh something? Would this be the existence of dark Fred?

[@loosekarrott]

shit be chillin in the bulk yo.

[@rovinlee7135]

Here in 2020

[@everburn]

Me too

[@MythicSuns]

1:25 dat mass doe!

[@rudravarma4659]

1:05 Did he say "Fuck"?

[@RussellSubedi]

Fred... and let's call Dark Energy George

[@leewardstyle]

Or we're wrong about gravity. Just saying.

[@zachdurden1821]

Yes let's assume that we are wrong about something that is as sure as gravity and simply come up with a better explanation for why there are such things as planets or stars or why we don't just fall off the earth when we jump. There is a posibility, there always is, but it seems that a form of matter that does not interact with us in any other way than by a gravitational force is still more likely than the assumption that everything we have done until now is wrong. Dark matter might be one of those things that we won't be able to figure out until some genious comes along and just explaines it, but since we can't hope for that to happen we just have to try won't we.

[@leewardstyle]

Zach Durden zero assumption rather. science. Planck, himself, broke gravity in both directions(-/+) using science, not assumption.

[@zachdurden1821]

you got any sources for that I'd like to read up on what you are saying.. but if you are talking about the planck scale then you are, as far as I have found out, wrong.

[@leewardstyle]

Zach Durden not really an issue of right or wrong. Gravity is useful and consistent using certain frames of reference. the math holds up. start to look at it differently, with different quark superstates and fancier models are needed. hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/planck.html

[@zachdurden1821]

well thanks m8 but still doesn't seem like we are that wrong about gravity.. but certainly more wrong than I thought ^^

[@wordswritteninred7171]

*STAR*talk. Has he won an emmy yet?

[@treasurehunter3744]

Let's call it Steve! It's a pretty name.

[@ericksummerose1544]

I like that I learned nothing. Learn something new everyday.

[@Dessly5]

lol we shall call these specific gravity ways, Fred waves

[@derrylwc]

Way to find the most Bill Cosby clips they could...from his StarTalk show

[@Atlas65]

Just call it "the unknown thing" Neil.

[@FlemingoFilmProductions]

people named fred after this: 🚗 🛣🚶🏻‍♂️📉

[@nsag1109]

if i learnt one thing from interstellar - it's love.

[@szebike]

It could be some "grand scale" special behavior of gravity itself or maybe a higgs prticle sun idk what Im talkign about ^^

[@billeeburkhart6630]

I wish my son had Neil for a teacher

[@swardist]

Well seems like a fucking good explanation to me.

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

Weeelll.......... Why don't we JUST call it .......THE FORCE!

[@davidtan4064]

How can they possibly be so certain they have added up the masses of all the astronomical bodies in the universe? Could they just be 85% off in their count?

[@tweepy123]

Let's start referring to it as Fred, until it catches on and everybody calls it Fred.

[@adrienrouxel1873]

Right on ... no one knows !

[@edwinfarr7301]

This guy is cool but I wish he would speed it up a bit. His explanations are good for kids but not adults.

[@mawiomponjika8487]

Fred was hurt watching this

[@skinnyfreak86]

what if this dark matter is cold.. absolute zero type cold.. so it cant radiate any form of detectable energy.. but its mass still applies to the rest of the detectable matter in the form of gravity..

[@Electriclady8]

🤔

[@thehmongzelda]

“What is dark matter? It’s me, I’m dark and I matter” -Neil degrasse Tyson. Was really hoping he’d say that. Lol

[@bricjap]

It must be in a dimension that we can not see

[@simianbarcode3011]

lol thanks for saying nothing. (don't get me wrong, i love this guy.)

[@dinosaco]

Fred it's the gravity :3

[@MegaBspark]

other universes, parallel to ours.

[@eze4life1]

what if dark matter isn't anything. like in the big bang if it happened. since it let go or blew away all these elements and gasses and just stiff it let go came from something let's just call pemos. and when the big bang happened everything that pemos was made of completely emerged from itself. it broke from itself. and the stuff left behind is dark energy. and dark energy has a gravitational pull because it's trying to pull everything back in to it's self. and it can't because of how powerfull the big bang was. so dark energy is really trying to pull everything back in that was tore from it. and when the expansion of the universe stops everything will be pulled back in and cause another big bang. idk it's just a thought I had

[@Electriclady8]

that was beautiful

[@dankmaster4746]

the fuck i just read not in the bad way my cerebro is to dank to understand this

[@knpstrr]

if it is nothing how does nothing "pull"? From our knowledge, things with mass "pull"

[@PanelitaPlay5577]

"When the expansion fo the universe stops"... there is not such a thing. The algorithms tell us the expansion will go on forever and is not only happening, it is actually accelerating. Is this particular science a lot of confussion? I looove the challenge though.

[@nltcraze]

Everything has to come back around . Space And time curves when the dimensions are right. The universe loves cycles, rotations and circles basically. It’s going out but it’s coming back. Always does. The Big Bang literally sounds like ejaculation like the original commenter said. If only these emotionless and autistic white scientist were a bit more poetic and dark and soulful-it would be clear to see the love story that is the Cosmos. It doesn’t have to be hard. But darn the flesh and it’s sins

[@BloodyDIMISIS55]

wow if he cant explain it then Fred is truly a crazy mystery

[@say1067]

It's called "The Nothing". Haven't you ever watched the movie "The never ending story"?

[@YksiSuomalainen]

Or we have miscalculated the power of gravity because both the Earth and the Moon are relatively hollow/light planets compared to their size?

[@YksiSuomalainen]

Gonzaga78 "Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of nature. The gravitational force is approximately 10−38 times the strength of the strong force (i.e. gravity is 38 orders of magnitude weaker), 10−36 times the strength of the electromagnetic force, and 10−29 times the strength of the weak force." -en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity

[@YksiSuomalainen]

***** Maybe the problem is we are wrong about the strength of gravity.

[@YksiSuomalainen]

***** ... So you think that if the Earth's gravity would be even a little weaker "earth would not hold together" ? Dude, come on.

[@YksiSuomalainen]

***** "...If your 'strenght of gravity' would be weaker, earth would not hold together..." I'm just quoting what you said. And I'm just throwing out a hypothesis. What if we are wrong about gravity in some aspects. Isn't "Dark Matter" a hypothesis as well?

[@jamiewinter2727]

+The Finn I agree with you. Dark matter is a sorry excuse for a miscalculation in the gravity formula we use. Oh, the numbers don't add up? Let's just give the result of our mistake the most ambiguous name and definition possible and claim it's "mystery matter". It' ridiculous.

[@avikdey6818]

Its colourful chemical gss

[@messianichebrewshawnkawcak1550]

I call it God’s intervention in this universe.

[@zippytwosauce6272]

you poor fella there is no god.

[@gatorjosh14]

If you can't find it, perhaps your thesis regarding how the entire universe works is wrong...

[@kelvinadimas8851]

its official guys, now its called Fred :D

[@johnmckenna6162]

If dark matter is suspected to be where the regular matter is, how do scientists know they haven't just miscalculated the strength of gravity in regular matter? And if dark matter is WIMPS - which move and go through most regular matter, why would it stay in the galaxies? Wouldn't it pass through them into intergallactic space?

[@jodyhart1205]

So if you can’t see it or measure it but claim it exists, wouldn’t you then say that you are living by faith,?

[@billionabil]

Hey I know Fred!

[@6footSmurf]

Freds everywhere became a little more depressed after this video.

[@75yomu]

18/05/2021

[@cornqueror]

actually, we dont even know what we dont know

[@rociomallet]

Then you should think that it is not gravity that moves this universe, instead of inventing mass that does not exist.

[@robertgullett3809]

If black holes 🕳️ keep are imperative for the galaxy to form and dark matter keeps our galaxy from falling apart and the universe is expanding then how is it that the Andromeda galaxy will one collide with the Milkyway?

[@Mr67bandit67]

They know what is all around us from the ground up to 62 miles but cannot identify what is after 63 miles.

[@DVendy]

No, let's call it "Juan"

[@apollojuez450]

(Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?)

[@apollojuez450]

(🤔 Considering the contexts, it's really great that you kept that contextual post. Uhh, I would like to comment more specifically & explicitly within the context, while this particular context actually is inclusive of a trendy little dumb scandal wherein a bunch of white Americans really seem likely to get all white Americans in *Whispers* seriously bad trouble. I'm sort of really disappointed about NASA, within the context, though it's a good & friendly sign that you kept that post. Good for you, & a bunch of reasonable, & even the somewhat tolerable, people.)

[@apollojuez450]

(A majority of the population had not slightest clue about the fact that "Dark Matter" really is a Scientifically evidenced phenomena, not actually, while I think that the television series titled "Dark Matter" was considerably interesting. ^.^ So, you might realize a few things about aspects of the contextual situation.)

[@apollojuez450]

(As well note: There was a Tribal Mayan facebook group that I was particular fond of, while that same favorite group was obsconded of "Pretendian-callers", & that was not so surprising upon consideration of the "Troll-Name-Callers" within the American Programming groups, not actually, & it's sort of healthy to like "Rockwell".)

[@apollojuez450]

(A few things that I figured about upon actually watching through the television series titled "Dark Matter": A really obvious contextual observation is, perhaps there's a connection between Dark Matter & Black Holes; Perhaps Dark Matter could be utilized to facilitate functionality of something similar a "Blink Drive"; The television series facilitated probability that people would realize about what I wrote to the Brian May facebook page with regards that, a particular vehicle could dimensionally pass through the Star within this Local Kosmos & arrive via a Star within a separate & distant Kosmos within the Kosmoi, & upon then passing through that particular Star within a particular place would then arrive via a Star within yet other a separate & distant Kosmos, & so forth, of a particular Order within the greater Kosmoi (('Galaxy')) or "Diasteirasein"; etc.)

[@apollojuez450]

(Alright. You take the low road, & I'll take the High Rhode. ^.^ Muahahahaha.)

[@snehanshu2011]

Why is it dark are matters floating inside water

[@Larstig81]

Fred has a meaning, because Fred Matter.

[@AxelYates]

Aww.. poor Fred.

[@ishw0r]

In a nutshell. He said "idk"

[@michaelcaplinger5115]

So would beyond the edge horizon of a black hole that dark spot that nobody can figure out. Could that be the same thing or energy as dark matter. Personally think dark matter is just the end of space fabric and its pulling on the fabric in every way possible expanding the universe. Its just not there

[@adonisscott5120]

What if dark matter is a parallel universe or like yin and yang or how man is a being of 3 man woman and soul ..positive and negative... matter dark matter and (....) are souls always existing Idk ... so much I need to learn but I'm ready

[@vnx2738]

Dark matter is likely to be a subatomic particle that cannot be seen or heard as it does not emit light, therefore, it cannot be detected by measuring electromagnetic forces. Until technology improves within the next 20-30 years, we'll never have definite answer.

[@Illidreth]

Miles W ***** Neil deGrasse Tyson is Science Jesus, prophet of the great and powerful Fred. All hail Fred, the truthiest truth ever. Of all time.

[@Mbrace818]

I know, right?! I need to meet him one day before I die.

[@Illidreth]

Miles W I can already see your face if you met him. media2.giphy.com/media/MAR9ldPOvcJfq/200_s.gif

[@Mbrace818]

***** Yep. That's it. Exactly that. I would literally grow anime eyes,

[@Illidreth]

Miles W Let's be perfectly fair. Who wouldn't?

[@Mbrace818]

***** Stupid people who don't like science who can "fuck off" xD You'll see what I mean by that.

[@YNGM1991]

God is in control

[@kxmode]

(Isaiah 40:22, 26) *He is stretching out the heavens like fine fabric,* And he spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Lift up your eyes to heaven and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who brings out their army by number; He calls them all by name. *Because of his vast dynamic energy and his awe-inspiring power,* Not one of them is missing. In simple terms the Bible explains what dark matter is, just like in simple terms it stated with scientific accuracy over 2,500 years ago "the circle of the earth" (Isaiah 40:22)

[@ThePppp89]

Uhhh, sure...

[@kxmode]

Well it sounds better than a renowned astrophysicist calling it Fred. At least the Bible provides a common sense explanation.

[@ThePppp89]

kxmode Well, that was a joke since he was saying we should call it something that has no meaning, since we don't know what it is. And (in my opinion) the Bible, or most parts of it, don't have any fucking sense. I did NOT mean to offend anyone, if I did, I am sorry.

[@kxmode]

ThePppp89 That's okay. I understand why you would say that. The Bible does have a message. Just like any book there's a theme that is established in Genesis and is fulfilled in Revelation; all the books in between lead up to the fulfillment. Have you thought about learning what the Bible teaches? The truths you learn might shock you. It's like Morpheus said, "You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more." All I'm offering is the Bible's truth. Nothing more.

[@yitkahhoh1195]

kxmode O great believer of God, please explain to me; a hopeless, unintelligent belligerent, why the Bible has so many versions? And why in some texts of the Bible (such as Isaiah 11:12 and Revelation 7:1) the Earth is stated as flat and supposedly has four corners? Please do excuse my ignorance.

[@ethansmith4509]

Well heck FRED